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Re: Platform in Squeeze (was Re: squeeze frozen – Implications for the DHG)



Hi,

Am Freitag, den 06.08.2010, 16:20 +0100 schrieb Iain Lane:
> On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 05:05:07PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >as you probably read, squeeze is frozen. Because our libraries are so
> >highly entangled, I’d therefore suggest that any upload is first
> >discussed on this list. Especially updates to newer upstream versions of
> >libraries have to be avoided, unless the update is meant to reach
> >squeeze and we have permission by the -release team – otherwise we could
> >not fix bugs in the depending packages in sid any more.
> >
> >Greetings,
> >Joachim
> 
> Thanks for the warning.
> 
> I had been harbouring the desire for a platform update at the back of
> my mind for a while. Looking at[0], there are a few libraries that
> would need to be updated to hit 2010.2.0.0. Do you think we should try
> and get this in? (Notwithstanding release team approval which is
> obviously not guaranteed). The binNMUs would obviously be rather
> inconvenient.

this was already turned down by the release team:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2010/07/msg00079.html
so I think we will have to go with 2010.1.0.0. Is that a major problem?

Greetings,
Joachim

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